Elevate Student Ministries

  Objective - Students will learn ingratitude is a negative attitude and will be challenged to give God praise. Key Scripture - Luke 17:15-16 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.  Summary - This lesson was the third lesson in a four-part series called Heart Attack: Don’t Let Your Attitudes Harm You. In this series, we are dealing with heart attitudes. In this lesson, we dealt with another heart attitude, the attitude of ingratitude.  In Luke 17, we studied the story of ten lepers who received healing from Jesus. Only one of the ten lepers turned back to express gratitude to Jesus. This one leper made a deliberate choice to express his gratitude. We helped your student understand that gratitude is a heart attitude expressing praise.  The lesson was called “Spiritual Arrhythmia” because having a complaining attitude is ou...

  Objective   - Students will learn the destructive nature of bitterness and be directed to embrace the power of forgiveness. Key Scripture - Hebrews 12:15 Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled. Summary   - This was the second lesson in a four-part series called Heart Attack: Don’t Let Your Attitudes Harm You. The second attitude we discussed that attacks the heart was bitterness. We took the definition of bitterness and explained it using the story of Cain and Abel. “Bitterness” is defined as “a hostile disposition and a poisonous frame of mind that causes a person to brood, scowl, and become repulsive in demeanor.” Cain developed a hostile disposition toward Abel because his sacrifice was rejected by God and Abel’s was accepted. Cain’s countenance fell, and he allowed his anger to turn into bitterness. Cain’s bitter attitude poisoned his mind a...

  Objective  - Students will learn that they will experience failure and be directed to focus on the unfailing grace of God. Key Scripture   - Luke 22:61-62 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So Peter went out and wept bitterly. Summary - In this four-part series called Heart Attack: Don’t Let Your Attitudes Harm You, we are looking at four destructive attitudes that attack the heart. The first attitude is feeling like a failure. We discussed reasons why students might feel like a failure. Failure can cause different emotions like anger, guilt, grief, regret, or embarrassment. These feelings are real, and they attack the heart.  In the lesson, your student learned from the life of Peter that God can take failure and turn it into something beautiful. Peter told Jesus he was ready to go with Jesus anywhere, even if that meant prison...

  Objective - Students will understand what it looks like to walk in the Holy Spirit and be challenged to yield their lives to His guidance and control.   Key Scripture – Galatians 5:16 - I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.   Key Thought - You can win the fight through the Spirit’s might.   Lesson Summary - Today's lesson was the final lesson in a four-part series about the Holy Spirit entitled Never Alone: Walking in Step with the Spirit.  What a great thought! Those who believe in Jesus are never alone. We have the Holy Spirit. This week we discussed the significance of living a life yielded to (walking in) the Holy Spirit.   As you surely know, students face an enormous amount of pressure to give in to the sinfulness and self-indulgence of this world. Victory can be had, but it is only available through the power of the Holy Spirit at work in the life of the believer. Walking in the Spirit requires purpose...

  Objective - Students will learn that the sealing of the Holy Spirit guarantees their eternal life and will be encouraged to live with confidence knowing their salvation is settled.   Key Scripture – Ephesians 1:13-14 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.   Key Thought - Your salvation is settled if you’re sealed by the Spirit.    Lesson Summary - Today ’s lesson was the third lesson in a four-part series about the Holy Spirit entitled Never Alone: Walking in Step with the Spirit. As a follower of Christ, we are never alone because we have been given the Holy Spirit. For this lesson, we talked about another aspect regarding the Holy Spirit called the sealing of the Spirit.   Have you ever d...